- Hardcover: 148 pages
- Publisher: AuthorHouse (13 May 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1418441031
- ISBN-13: 978-1418441036
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a well thought out and clever book about the American Drug culture. The author combines a fictional history of the Assassin (The Hasan of Sabbah) into everyday american comic book folklore, and the result is The 4 Hundred and 20 Assassins of Emir Abdullah-Harazins. The story follows Anazasi on his quest for paradise into the dark jungles of Harazin's lair, but is really an introspective look at the mind of a 20th century pot smoker. Phish and Dead fans will identify with this quasi-myth about a garden so beautiful and prince so infamous, his very name is synonymous with assassin.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Lost in a world I don't understand
25 Sep 2005
Format:Paperback
Throughout much of this book which was really hard to follow, I felt as if the author skipping around too much. We're in the past, we're in the present, we're at the scene of his mother's death. We (the reader) begin to get confused. Dazed and Confused? I don't think this is done intentionally in what is an awkward read. It is a short awkward read though which is good.
The book is about this obliterated assassin who is picked to go on a mission to kill the King. He (the assassin) has a rather hard time with this task simply because he is never told straight out by anyone to kill the King. He has this dream or you think it's a dream where this giant snake tells him to kill the King but, Abdullah-Harazins the main antagonist never tells Anazasi the assassin to kill the King. We get a sense of maddening as Anazasi falls under the spell of drug use and the reader takes us inside a world I don't understand.
This book also seems a little offensive from the perspective of the perfect male fantasy is a paradise cove of a waterpark where the man gets to have an orgy with dozens of young naked women from every ethnic background in the world and sip cognac next to a waterfall afterwards.
There were a few good things about it. There was one or two beautiful sentences and I particularly like a lot of the alliteration with the snake, "ASsSsSsASsSsSinS...KkKill the KkKing."
The book is about this obliterated assassin who is picked to go on a mission to kill the King. He (the assassin) has a rather hard time with this task simply because he is never told straight out by anyone to kill the King. He has this dream or you think it's a dream where this giant snake tells him to kill the King but, Abdullah-Harazins the main antagonist never tells Anazasi the assassin to kill the King. We get a sense of maddening as Anazasi falls under the spell of drug use and the reader takes us inside a world I don't understand.
This book also seems a little offensive from the perspective of the perfect male fantasy is a paradise cove of a waterpark where the man gets to have an orgy with dozens of young naked women from every ethnic background in the world and sip cognac next to a waterfall afterwards.
There were a few good things about it. There was one or two beautiful sentences and I particularly like a lot of the alliteration with the snake, "ASsSsSsASsSsSinS...KkKill the KkKing."
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
420 origin and myth?
3 Sep 2004
Format:Paperback
This is a well thought out and clever book about the American Drug culture. The author combines a fictional history of the Assassin (The Hasan of Sabbah) into everyday american comic book folklore, and the result is The 4 Hundred and 20 Assassins of Emir Abdullah-Harazins. The story follows Anazasi on his quest for paradise into the dark jungles of Harazin's lair, but is really an introspective look at the mind of a 20th century pot smoker. Phish and Dead fans will identify with this quasi-myth about a garden so beautiful and prince so infamous, his very name is synonomous with assassin.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Pot smoking Assassins
29 May 2004
Format:Paperback
420 What is the origin? DeMarco has some fun with this one in this morbid tale about a pot smoking assassin and a garden so beautiful...I guarantee most men would want to enter. The garden is filled with naked women, fruits, and all the marijuana you can smoke. It is based on the life of Hassan El Sabbah, who is credited as being the inventor of the Assassin as a poltical tool throughout the middle east. This will probably be a cult classic in 10 years. I loved it.
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